On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 10:43 +0100, ext Bernhard Walle wrote: > Am 19.03.2010 21:37, schrieb Eric W. Biederman: > > Ameya Palande <2ameya at gmail.com> writes: > > > >> Since current mechanism for building rpm into custom directory is not working, > >> remove it and switch to system defaults for rpmbuild. > > > > Does RPM really bit rot that quickly? > > > > I know at the time I added the code it was the only way I could > > get rpm to build an rpm without being root. Something that seems > > desirable. I can build rpm on ubuntu 9.10 as a normal user without having this custom "rpm" directory. > It works here on openSUSE 11.1 when I change > > -RPMDIR=rpm > +RPMDIR=$(shell pwd)/rpm On Ubuntu 9.10 when I removed RPMDIR stuff, rpmbuild command takes system defaults and builds rpm in $HOME/rpmbuild directory. Cheers, Ameya.
